PROMOTORI AI CULTURII ROMÂNE: BOGDAN P. HASDEU ŞI MIRCEA ELIADE
PROMOTERS OF ROMANIAN CULTURE: BOGDAN P. HASDEU AND MIRCEA ELIADE

Summary/Abstract: The affinity between Mircea Eliade and B. P. Hasdeu is not incidental in the least, but it is deeply rooted in a similar artistic background. Both of them think that spirituality reflects itself in a nation’s cultural manifestations. Their works are a glorification of faith, national culture, and patriotism, profoundly interlaced with the folklore. Prior to Eliade, Hasdeu had proved a merely encyclopaedic author. Eliade reinforces B. P. Hasdeu’s main personality traits. According to Eliade’s Preface to the anthology of Hasdeu’s “Literary, Moral, and Political Writings”, the latter’s figure displays the Romantic structure of a gifted writer. Eliade remarked that Hasdeu was the first Romantic who had revealed, alongside his works, a note of spirituality imbued with magic. Hasdeu has played an important role in the Romanian culture since the 19th century.

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